--- title: "Bullinger" description: "I. Note the \"I\" of self-justification; and see note on Job 29:2 . why . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6 . THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew Shaddai. App-4 ." image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/job/31" --- **I.** Note the "I" of self-justification; and see note on [Job 29:2](../../../kjv/job/29/2) . **why . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . **THE ALMIGHTY.** Hebrew Shaddai. App-4 . **Is not . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis* . App-6 . **Doth not He . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . **crime.** Hebrew zimmah. App-44 . **iniquity.** Hebrew. *'avah.* **iniquity to be punished by the judges** = a judicial iniquity; or, an iniquity in the eye of the law. **poor.** Hebrew. *dal =* impoverished or reduced in means. See note on [Proverbs 6:11](../../../kjv/proverbs/6/11) . **poor** = helpless. Hebrew. *'ebyon.* See note on [Proverbs 6:11](../../../kjv/proverbs/6/11) . **loins have not blessed.** Figure of speech *Prosopopoeia,* App-6 :. the loins so covered. **help.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for those who would he on his side. **the bone.** Authorized Version margin, "the chanel bone". Obsolete Eng. for channel = what is channelled or scooped out: i.e. the socket. **highness** = majesty. **endure** = escape. **the sun** = the light. **my mouth hath kissed my hand:** i.e. the outward sign of homage [to, or in worship, of the sun]. **found.** Figure of speech *Prosopopoeia.* App-6 . **his.** A special various reading called *Sevir* ( App-34 ) reads "their". **soul.** Hebrew. *nephesh* . App-13 . **men.** Heb *methim.* App-14 . **tabernacle** = tent. **transgressions.** Hebrew. *pasha'.* App-44 . Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "transgression" (singular) **as Adam.** Compare [Genesis 3:10](../../../kjv/genesis/3/10) . **Oh!** Figure of speech *E* cphonesis. App-6 . **adversary** = man (Hebrew ' *i* s *h* . App-14 .) of my quarrel. **land cry . . . complain.** Figure of speech *Prosopopoeia.* App-6 . **have caused, &c.** = made the souls of the owners groan. **life** = soul. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 . **Let thistles grow.** This is not an imprecation, but an argument in favor of his integrity: i.e. Had he been as his friends alleged, would he not have had bad instead of bountiful harvests? See translation below. **ended:** so far as his friends were concerned. He had words for God (ch. 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